Say no to coal and air advisories

4:45 PM,
Feb. 17, 2014

IPL's Harding Street generating station.

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I am a mother with two young children. My family lives three miles from the Harding Street coal plant, and I am concerned by the Air Quality Health Advisory ­issued on Feb. 13. The high levels of soot that made the air unhealthy all over Central Indiana are the same harmful air pollutants from the coal plant previously cited in one of The Star's articles.

New EPA data reveal that IPL's Harding Street coal plant was responsible for 88 percent of the toxic pollution in Marion County. The facts also show that 10 of the top 15 polluters in Indiana are coal-fired power plants. The quality of the air we ...